Full-Time Teleworking and Organizational Robustness of GSM Telecommunication Firms in South-South, Nigeria
Vol.6 Issue 3
The goal of this study was to ascertain the relationship between Full-Time Tele-Working and Organizational Robustness. Based on the conceptual framework, four (4) research questions were formulated as well as ten (10) hypotheses. Reciprocal determinism theory, socio-technical system theory and institutional theory were adopted as the theoretical foundation for the study. The researcher aligned with the positivism tradition as the philosophical foundation for the study. A correlational research design was adopted. A total of one hundred and thirty-one (131) was drawn from a population of one hundred and sixty-two (162) manager and supervisors across the regional/ corporate offices of four (4) GSM telecommunication firms in South-South, Nigeria. The researcher adopted primary method of data collection. The questionnaire went through content and construct validity test, while Cronbach Alpha was used to test for reliability of the research instrument. The data collected were analyzed at different levels, for primary level data, descriptive statistical tools were used in describing the demographic and univariate, inferential statistical tools were used in analyzing the bivariate. The result of the findings revealed that full time tele-working, part-time tele-working and situational tele-working relates positively with functional robustness, operational robustness and administrative robustness respectively. Following this outcome, the study concludes that full-time-working is a viable and highly applicable approach towards sustaining and enhancing the administrative processes of the organization, ensuring its continued operations and also ensuring its functionality, in line with the changes and dynamic nature of the environment; thus, it serves to advance the robustness of organizations within the disposition of today’s business context. Thus, the researcher recommends that organizations should focus on bridging their work forms with the environment through tele-working, which facilitates goal pursuit and attainment-thus enhancing the robustness of the organization.
